In Press

Badreshany, K. and Kennedy, M.

Potting on the Edge of the Painted Traditions: The Role of Craft Production during the Chalcolithic of the Central Levant. in The Settlement Landscape of the Orontes from the 4th-2nd Millennium BC, ed. M. Kennedy and S. Bourke. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag.

 

Batiuk, S., Rothman, M., Samei, S., Hovsepyan, R.

Unraveling the Kura-Araxes Cultural Tradition Across Space and Time. To appear in Ancient Near Eastern Studies.

 

 

In Review

Badreshany, K., and Philip, G.

in review Innovative Exchanges: The Development, Dissemination, and Adoption of the Earliest Ceramic Traditions in the East Mediterranean. Antiquity 595: 54-87.

 

2022

Badreshany, K., Sowada, K., Ownby, M., Jean, M., De Vreeze, M., McClymont, A., and Philip, G.

online The characterisation of ceramic production from the central Levant and Egyptian trade in the Pyramid Age. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 41. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352409X21005216?dgcid=author

 

2021

Giorgi, Andrea U. De, and A. Asa Eger.

Antioch: A History. 1st edition. London ; New York: Routledge.

 

 

Gaastra, J.S., Welton, L., de Gruchy, M., and Lawrence, D.

2021 Landscapes, climate and choice: Examining patterns in animal provisioning across the Near East c. 13,000-0 BCE. Quaternary International 595: 54-87.

 

Harrison, T.

The Iron I-II Transition in the Northern Levant: An Emerging Consensus? Jerusalem Journal of Archaeology 1: 325-51.

 

Herrmann V. R. and Schloen, D.

Middle Bronze Age Zincirli: The Date of “Hilani I” and the End of Middle Bronze II. BASOR 385: 33-51.

 

Huo, Y. and Peltier, W.R.

online The southeast asian monsoon: dynamically downscaled climate change projections and high resolution regional ocean modelling on the effects of the Tibetan Plateau. Climate Dynamics 56: 2597-2616.

 

Morgan, K. R. and Soldi, S.

Middle Bronze Age Zincirli: an interim Report on Architecture, Small finds, and Ceramics from a Monumental Complex of the 17th Century BCE. BASOR 385: 53-86.

 

Morrison, K., Emily Hammer; Oliver Boles; Marco Madella; Nicola Whitehouse; Marie-Jose Gaillard; Jennifer Bates; Marc Vander Linden; Stefania Merlo; Alice Yao; Laura Popova; Austin Chad Hill; Ferran Antolin; Andrew Bauer; Stefano Biagetti; Rosie Bishop; Philip Buckland; Pablo Cruz; Dagmar Dreslerova; Gerrit Dusseldorp; Erle Ellis; Dragana Filipovic; Thomas Foster; Matthew Hannaford; Sandy Harrison; Manjil Hazarika; Hajnalka Herold; Joanna Hilpert; Jed Kaplan; Andrea Kay; Kees Klein Goldewijk; Jan Kolar; Elizabeth Kyazike; Julian Laabs; Carla Lancelotti; Paul Lane; Dan Lawrence;

 

Krista Lewis; Umberto Lombardo; Giulio Lucarini; Manuel Arroyo-Kalin; Robert Marchant; Meriel McClatchie; Madeleine McLeester; Scott Mooney; Magdalena Moskal-del Hoyo; Vanessa Navarrete; Emmanuel Ndiema; Marek Nowak; Welmoed Out; Cameron Petrie; Leanne Phelps; Zsolt Pinke; Thembi Russell; Andrew Sluyter; Amy Styring; Selvakumar Veerasamy; Lynn Welton; Marco Zanon.

 

online Mapping past human land use using archaeological data: a new classification for global land use synthesis and data harmonization. PLoS One. Published: April 14, 2021 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0246662

 

2020

Badreshany, K. and Philip, G.

Ceramic Studies and Petrographic Analysis in Levantine Archaeology: the Limitations of Current Approaches. Levant (Special Issue: Ceramics, Society, and Economy in the Northern Levant: an Integrated Archaeometric Perspective) 52(1-2): 5-14. https://www-tandfonline-com.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/doi/full/10.1080/00758914.2020.1786270

 

Badreshany, K. and Philip, G., and Kennedy, M.

The development of integrated regional economies in the Early Bronze Age Levant: new evidence from ‘Combed Ware’ jars. Levant (Special Issue: Ceramics, Society, and Economy in the Northern Levant: an Integrated Archaeometric Perspective) 52(1-2): 160-196. https://www-tandfonline-com.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/doi/full/10.1080/00758914.2019.1641009

 

Boileau, M.-C.

Petrographic Signatures of the Tell 'Acharneh Ceramics: A Diachronic Perspective. Levant (Special Issue: Ceramics, Society, and Economy in the Northern Levant: an Integrated Archaeometric Perspective) 52(1-2): 237-255. https://www-tandfonline-com.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/doi/full/10.1080/00758914.2018.1477296

 

Bourke, S. J.

Sequence, chronology and culture at Tell Nebi Mend in the Middle and Late Bronze Ages. Pp. 229-26 in A Land In-between: The Orontes Valley in the Early Urban Age. ed. M. Kennedy Sydney: Sydney University Press.

 

Chandan, D. and Peltier, R.

African Humid Period Precipitation Sustained by Robust Vegetatino , Soil and Lake Feedbacks. Geophysical Research Letters 47(21)

 

D’Andrea, M.

The Early Bronze IVB Pottery from Tell Mardikh/Ebla. Chrono-typological and Techno-petrographic Data for Framing the Site within the Regional Context. Levant (Special Issue: Ceramics, Society, and Economy in the Northern Levant: an Integrated Archaeometric Perspective) 52(1-2):56-84. https://www-tandfonline-com.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/doi/full/10.1080/00758914.2018.1449374

 

Denel, E. and Harrison, T.

Yeni Assur Dönemi Tayinat. Pp. 328-42, in Assurlular: Dicle’den Toroslar’a Tanrı Assur’un Krallığı. Edited by Kemalattin Köroğlu and Selim Ferruh Adalı. Istanbul: Yapı Kredi Yayınları, 2020. [reprint]

 

Ertepinar, P., Hammond, M.L., Hill, M.J., Biggin, A.J., Langereis, C.G. Herries, A.I.R., Yener, K.A., Akar, M., Gates, M.-H., Harrison, T., Greaves, A.M., Frankel, D., Webb, J.M., Özgen, İ., and Yazicioglu, G.B. 2020 online Extreme geomagnetic field variability indicated by Eastern Mediterranean full-vector archaeomagnetic records. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 531. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2019.115979

 

Graham, S., Huffer, D., and Blackadar, J.

Towards a Digital Sensorial archaeology as an Experiment in Distant Viewing of the Trade in Human Remains on Instagram. Heritage 3: 208-227.

 

Harrison, T.

Computational research on the Ancient near East (CRANE): large-scale data integration and analysis in Near Eastern archaeology. Levant (Special Issue: Ceramics, Society, and Economy in the Northern Levant: an Integrated Archaeometric Perspective) 52: 1-4. https://www-tandfonline-com.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/doi/full/10.1080/00758914.2018.1492784

 

Huo, Y. and Peltier, W.R.

Dynamically downscaled climate change projections for the South Asian Monsoon: Mean and extreme precipitation changes and physics parameterization impacts, Journal of Climate 6: 2311-2331. doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-19-0268.1, 2020.

 

Jean, M.

Pottery Production in Tell Arqa during the Third Millennium: Characterisation of Ceramic Raw Materials. Levant (Special Issue: Ceramics, Society, and Economy in the Northern Levant: an Integrated Archaeometric Perspective) 52(1-2): 136-159. https://www-tandfonline-com.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/doi/full/10.1080/00758914.2018.1454239

 

Kageyama, Masa, Sandy P. Harrison, Marie-L. Kapsch, Marcus Löfverström , Juan M. Lora, Uwe Mikolajewicz, Sam Sherriff-Tadano, Tristan Vadsaria, Ayako Abe-Ouchi, Nathaelle Bouttes, Deepak Chandan, Allegra N. LeGrande, Fanny Lhardy, Gerrit Lohmann, Polina A. Morozova, Rumi Ohgaito, W. Richard Peltier, Aurélien Quiquet, Didier M. Roche1,Xiaoxu Shi, Andreas Schmittner, Jessica E. Tierney, Evgeny Volodin

online The PMIP4-CMIP6 Last Glacial Maximum experiments: preliminary results and comparison with the PMIP3-CMIP5 simulations”, Climate of the Past Discusions doi.org/10.5194/cp-2019-169

 

Kennedy, M., Badreshany, K., and Philip, G.

Drinking on the Periphery: The Tell Nebi Mend Goblets in Their Regional and Archaeometric Context. Levant (Special Issue: Ceramics, Society, and Economy in the Northern Levant: an Integrated Archaeometric Perspective) 52(1-2):103-135. https://www-tandfonline-com.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/doi/full/10.1080/00758914.2018.1442076

 

Manning, S. W., Kromer, B., Cremaschi, M., Dee, M. W., Friedrich, R., Griggs, C., and Hadden, C. S.

online Mediterranean radiocarbon offsets and calendar dates for prehistory. Science Advances 6 (12): https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/12/eaaz1096

 

Manning, S.M., Lorentzen, B., Welton, L, Batiuk, S., Harrison, T.P. 2020 online Beyond megadrought and collapse in the Northern Levant: The chronology of Tell Tayinat and two historical inflection episodes, around 4.2ka BP, and following 3.2ka BP. PLOSOne 15(10) https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0240799

 

Manning, S.W., Wacker, L., Büntgen, U., Bronk Ramsey, C., Dee, M.W., Kromer, B., Lorentzen, B., and Tegel, W.

online Radiocarbon offsets and old world chronology as relevant to Mesopotamia, Egypt, Anatolia and Thera (Santorini). Scientific Reports 10: 41598. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-69287-2

 

Marchetti, N., Bitelli, G., Franci, F., and Zaina, F.

online Archaeology and Dams in Southeastern Turkey: Post-Flooding Damage Assessment and Safeguarding Strategies on Cultural Heritage, in Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 33: https://journals.equinoxpub.com/JMA/article/view/42345

 

Marchetti, N., Franco, G., Musso, S.F., Spadolini, M.B. (ed)

An Integrated Approach for an Archaeological and Environmental Park in South- Eastern Turkey. Tilmen Höyük, Springer International.

 

Mouamar, G.

The Early Bronze IVB Painted Simple Ware from Tell Shʻaīrat: An Integrated Archaeometric Approach. Levant (Special Issue: Ceramics, Society, and Economy in the Northern Levant: an Integrated Archaeometric Perspective) 52(1-2): 85-102. https://www-tandfonline-com.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/doi/full/10.1080/00758914.2018.1477295

 

Nieuwenhuijse, O., Daskiewicz, M. and Schneider, G.

Investigating Late Neolithic Ceramics in the Northern Levant: The View from Shir. Levant (Special Issue: Ceramics, Society, and Economy in the Northern Levant: an Integrated Archaeometric Perspective) 52(1-2):15-33. https://www-tandfonline-com.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/doi/full/10.1080/00758914.2018.1453213

 

Peltier, W.R., Ma, Y. and Chandan, D.

online The KPP trigger of rapid AMOC intensification in the nonlinear Dansgaard-Oeschger relaxation oscillation, Journal of Geophysics Research – Oceans 125 (5), doi:/10.1029/ 2019JC015557, May 2020.

 

Philip, G., and Badreshany, K

Ceramics, society and economy in the Northern Levant: discussion and conclusions. (Special Issue: Ceramics, Society, and Economy in the Northern Levant: an Integrated Archaeometric Perspective) 52(1-2):278-296. https://www-tandfonline-com.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/toc/ylev20/52/1-2?nav=tocList

 

Prosser, M.

Digging for Data: A Practical Critique of Digital Archaeology, pp 309-323 in An Excellent Fortress for His Armies, a Refuge for the People: Egyptological, Archaeological, and Biblical Studies in Honor of James K. Hoffmeier, ed R.E. Averbeck and K L. Younger, University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press.

 

Prosser, M. and Schloen, S.

Unlocking legacy Data: Integrating New and Old in the Onoline Cultural and Historical Research Environment (OCHRE). Pp 39-52 in Old Excavation Data: What Can we Do? Proceedings of the Workshop Held at the 10th ICAANE in Vienna, April 2016, ed. E. Aspöck, S. Štuhec, K. Kopetzky, and M. Kucera. Oriental and European Archaeology 16. Vienna: Austrian academy of Sciences.

 

Shabo, S.

Late Bronze Age II Pottery Tradition from Qatna: The Palace Destruction Phase Evidenced in Areas Q and T. Levant (Special Issue: Ceramics, Society, and Economy in the Northern Levant: an Integrated Archaeometric Perspective) 52(1-2) 256-277. : https://www-tandfonline-com.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/doi/full/10.1080/00758914.2018.1514164

 

Sowada, K., Ownby, M., and Wodzińska, A.

The petrography of imported Levantine Combed vessels from early Old Kingdom Giza. ). Levant (Special Issue: Ceramics, Society, and Economy in the Northern Levant: an Integrated Archaeometric Perspective) 52(1-2): 197-214. https://www-tandfonline-com.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/doi/full/10.1080/00758914.2019.1664197

 

Vacca, A.

Characterizing the Early Bronze III-IVA1 Pottery of Northern Levant through Typological and Petrographic Analyses. The Case Study of Tell Mardikh/Ebla and Tell Tuqan (Syria). Levant (Special Issue: Ceramics, Society, and Economy in the Northern Levant: an Integrated Archaeometric Perspective) 52(1-2): 34-55. https://www-tandfonline-com.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/doi/full/10.1080/00758914.2018.1447208

 

Velay-Vitow, J and Peltier, W.R.,

The Tides of the Glacial Ocean and Their Possible Connection to Heinrich Event Instabilities of the Laurentide Ice Sheet, Journal of Geophysics Research - Oceans 125(1) doi.10.1029/2019JC015444, 21 pp., January 24, 2020

 

Out of the Ice-Age: Mega tides of the Glacial Arctic Ocean and the Bolling-Allerod, Yonger Dryas transition. Geophysics Researach Letters. 47 (23) https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL089870

 

Welton, L.

The Amuq in the Early Bronze Age III-IV from a Levantine Perspective. Pp. 51-71 in New Horizons in the Study of the Early Bronze III and Early Bronze IV of the Levant, ed. S. Richard. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns.

 

Northern Levantine spheres of interaction: The role of the ‘Amuq plain in the Late Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age. Pp. 17-46 in A Land In-between: The Orontes Valley in the Early Urban Age. ed. M. Kennedy Sydney: Sydney University Press.

 

EBIV ceramic production in the Orontes watershed: petrography from the Amuq and beyond. Levant (Special Issue: Ceramics, Society, and Economy in the Northern Levant: an Integrated Archaeometric Perspective) 52(1-2) 215-236. https://www-tandfonline-com.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/doi/full/10.1080/00758914.2018.1470857

 

2019

Badreshany, K., Philip, G. and Kennedy, M.

2019 online The development of integrated regional economies in the Early Bronze Age Levant: new evidence from ‘Combed Ware’ jars. Levant (Special Issue: Ceramics, Society, and Economy in the Northern Levant: an Integrated Archaeometric Perspective) 52: https://www-tandfonline-com.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/doi/full/10.1080/00758914.2019.1641009

 

Harrsion, T.

2019 Tell Ta’yinat (anciennement Kunulua). Les Néo-Hittites du Palastin/Walastin. Pp. 219–31 in Royaumes oubliés. de l’empire Hittite aux Araméens, Paris: Lienart and Musée du Louvre.

 

Harrison, T., Denel, E., Batiuk, S.

2019 Tayinat Höyük Kazıları. 2017. Kazi Sonuclari Toplantisi 40, Cilt 3: 483–502.

 

Karakaya, D. 2019 Botanical Aspects of the Environment and Economy at Tell Tayinat from the Bronze to Iron Ages (ca. 2,200 – 600 BCE), in south-central Turkey. Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, University of Tübingen.

 

Karakaya, D. and Riehl, S.

2019 Subsistence in Post-Collapse Societies: Patterns of Agroproduction from the Late Bronze Age to the Iron Age in the Northern Levant and Beyond. The Iron Age I in the Levant. A View from the North (Part I), Ed. by L. Welton and H. Charaf. Archaeology & History in the Lebanon 50-51: 136–63.

 

Osborne, J., Harrison, T., Batiuk, S., Welton, L., Dessel, J.P., Denel, E., and Demirci, Ö

2019 Urban Built Environments of the Early First Millennium BCE: Results of the Tayinat Archaeological Project, 2004-2016. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 382: 261–312.

 

Welton, L.

2019 A New Start or Business as Usual? Evidence from the Earliest Iron Age I Levels at Tell Tayinat. The Iron Age I in the Levant. A View from the North (Part I), ed. by L. Welton and H. Charaf. Archaeology & History in the Lebanon 50–51: 70–92.

 

Welton, L. and Charaf, H.

The Iron Age I in the Levant: A View from the North. Epilogue. The Iron Age I in the Levant: The View from the North (Part 2), eds. H. Charaf and L. Welton. Archaeology and History in the Lebanon 52-53. Beirut: Lebanese British Friends of the British Museum.

 

Badreshany, K. and Kennedy, M.

in Press  Potting on the Edge of the Painted Traditions: The Role of Craft Production during the Chalcolithic of the Central Levant. In The Settlement Landscape of the Orontes from the 4th-2nd Millennium BC, ed. M. Kennedy and S. Bourke. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag.

 

Badreshany, K.; Philip, G.; and Kennedy, M.

in press EBA ‘Combed’ Wares and Their Role in the Development of the Levant’s Earliest Highly Integrated Regional Economies.  Levant (Special Issue: Ceramics, Society, and Economy in the Northern Levant: an Integrated Archaeometric Perspective) 49/3:

 

Boileau, M.-C.

in press Petrographic Signatures of the Tell 'Acharneh Ceramics: A Diachronic Perspective. Levant (Special Issue: Ceramics, Society, and Economy in the Northern Levant: an Integrated Archaeometric Perspective) 49/3:

 

Cooper, E.

in press  Half-Empty or Half-Full? Past and Present Research on EBIV [Early Bronze Age IV] Caliciform Goblets and their Chronological and Socio-Economic Implications,’ in Ebla and Beyond: Ancient Near Eastern Studies after Fifty Years of Discoveries at Tell Mardikh, ed. Frances Pinnock and Paolo Matthiae. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz (23 pages, 12 images).

 

D’Andrea, M.

in press  The Early Bronze IVB Pottery from Tell Mardikh/Ebla. Chrono-typological and Techno-petrographic Data for Framing the Site within the Regional Context. Levant (Special Issue: Ceramics, Society, and Economy in the Northern Levant: an Integrated Archaeometric Perspective) 49/3:

 

Harrison, T.

Introduction to the CRANE project. Levant (Special Issue: Ceramics, Society, and Economy in the Northern Levant: an Integrated Archaeometric Perspective) 49/3:

 

Herrmann, V. R. and J. D. Schloen.

in press.  Assyrian Impact on the Kingdom of Sam'al: The View from Zincirli, in The Provincial Archaeology of the Assyrian Empire. McDonald Institute Monographs. Edited by J. MacGinnis and D. Wicke. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archeological Research.

 

Jean, M.

Pottery Production in Tell Arqa during the Third Millennium: Characterisation of Ceramic Raw Materials. Levant (Special Issue: Ceramics, Society, and Economy in the Northern Levant: an Integrated Archaeometric Perspective) 49/3:

 

Kennedy, M.; Badreshany, K; and Philip, G.

Drinking on the Periphery: The Tell Nebi Mend Goblets in Their Regional and Archaeometric Context. Levant (Special Issue: Ceramics, Society, and Economy in the Northern Levant: an Integrated Archaeometric Perspective) 49/3:

 

Marom, Nimrod and V. R. Herrmann.

Incorporation into the Neo-Assyrian Empire from the Perspective of the Faunal Remains from Zincirli Höyük, Turkey. Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies 2.4.

 

Mouamar, G.The Early Bronze IVB Painted Simple Ware from Tell Shʻaīrat: An Integrated Archaeometric Approach. Levant (Special Issue: Ceramics, Society, and Economy in the Northern Levant: an Integrated Archaeometric Perspective) 49/3:

 

Shabo, S.

Late Bronze Age II Pottery Tradition from Qatna: The Palace Destruction Phase Evidenced in Areas Q and T. Levant (Special Issue: Ceramics, Society, and Economy in the Northern Levant: an Integrated Archaeometric Perspective) 49/3:

 

Vacca, A.

Characterizing the Early Bronze III-IVA1 Pottery of Northern Levant through Typological and Petrographic Analyses. The Case Study of Tell Mardikh/Ebla and Tell Tuqan (Syria). Levant (Special Issue: Ceramics, Society, and Economy in the Northern Levant: an Integrated Archaeometric Perspective) 49/3:

 

Welton, L.

 

Gap or Transition? Characterizing the Late Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age I in the Amuq. To appear in Studia Eblaitica 3.

 

EBIV Ceramic Production in the Orontes Watershed: Petrography from the Amuq and Beyond. Levant (Special Issue: Ceramics, Society, and Economy in

 the Northern Levant: an Integrated Archaeometric Perspective) 49/3:

 

The EBIII-IV in the Amuq in a Levantine Context”.  To appear in New Horizons in the Study of the Early Bronze III and Early Bronze IV in the Levant, ed. S. Richard. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns.

 

Northern Levantine Spheres of Interaction: The Role of the Amuq in the Early Bronze Age.  To appear in the proceedings of The Settlement Landscape of the Orontes Valley in the Fourth through Second Millennia BCE, ed. M. Kennedy and S. Bourke.

 

Welton, L., Harrison, T., Batiuk, S., Ünlü, E., Janeway, B., Karakaya, D., Lipovitch, D., Lumb, D. and Roames, J.

 

2019 Shifting Networks and Community Identity at Tell Tayinat in the Iron I (ca. 12th to mid 10th Cent. BCE). American Journal of Archaeology. Vol. 123, No. 2 (April 2019): 291–333.

 

2018

Akıncı, Y. and Denel, E.

2018 Kubaba - Kütüphane Kedisi. Kedici 28:22–26

 

Harrison, T. Denel, E., and Batiuk, S.

2018 Tayinat Höyük Araştırmaları, 2016. Kazi Sonuclari Toplantisi 39, Cilt 1, 563–571

 

Herrmann, V.

2018 Cosmopolitan Politics in the Neo-Assyrian Empire: Local Elite identity at Zincirli-Samʾal. Semitica 60:493-535.

2018 Urban organization under empire: Iron Age Sam'al (Zincirli, Turkey) from royal to provincial capital. Levant 49(3):284–311.

 

Manning, S., Griggs, C., Lorentzen, B., Bronk Ramsey, C., Chivall, D., Jull, A, J. T. and Lange, T. E.

2018 Fluctuating radiocarbon offsets observed in the southern Levant and implications for archaeological chronology debates. PNAS 115(24)6141–6146. http://www.pnas.org/content/115/24/6141

 

2017

Batiuk, S., Harrisons, T.P., Welton, L., Jablonkay, D., and Ragia, L.

The Computational Research on the Ancient near East (CRANE) Project: Archaeological Data Integration, Simulation and Data Mining. In The Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Geographical Information Systems Theory, Applications and Management, Porto, Portugal. April 27-28, 2017. ACM New York, NY, USA.

 

Herrmann, V.

2017 Appropriation and Emulation in the Earliest Sculptures from Zincirli (Iron Age Sam’al). American Journal of Archaeology 121(2): 237-274.

 

Harrison, T.

2017 Some Observations and Future Directions. Pp. 221–228 in Ancient West Asian Civilization. Geoenvironment and Society in the Pre-Islamic Middle East, ed. A. Tsuneki, S. Yamada, and K. Hisada. Singapore: Springer.

 

2016

Badreshany, K.

2016 Lebanon’s Earliest Potting Traditions in Regional Context. Berytus LIX: 5-42.

 

Manning, S. W.; Griggs, C. B.; Lorentzen, B.; Barjamovic, G.; Bronk Ramsey, C.; Kkromer, B.; and Wild, E. M.

2016 Integrated Tree-Ring-Radiocarbon High-Resolution Timeframe to Resolve Earlier Second Millennium BCE Mesopotamian Chronology. PLOS ONE July 13.

 

2015

Badreshany, K.

2015  Conference Review: Ceramic Petrology Group Annual Meeting November 7th 2015, Durham. The Old Potter’s Almanack: 20-2.

 

Badreshany, K. and Gutiérrez, A.

2015  Work on Mediveal Finds at the Durham Archaeomaterials Research Centre. Society for Medieval Archaeology Newsletter, Spring 2015

 

Badreshany, K and Gutiérrez, A.

2015  Work on Mediveal Pottery at the Durham Archaeomaterials Research Centre. Society for Medieval Pottery Research Group Newsletter, April 2015

 

2014

Blanco-González, A.; Kreiter, A.; Badreshany, K.; Chapman, J.; and Páncél, P.

2014  Matching Sherds to Vessels through Ceramic Petrography: An Early Neolithic Iberian Case Study. Journal of Archaeological Science 50: 139-152.

 

Welton, L.

2014 Revisiting the Amuq Sequence: A Preliminary Investigation of the EBIVB Ceramic Assemblage from Tell Tayinat. Levant 46(3): 339-370.

 

 

CRANE Related Workshops/Meetings

ASOR Annual Meeting, November 2021

 

Grand Challenges for Digital Research in Archaeology and Philology (Workshop)

Chairs: Prosser, M. C., and Harrison, T.P.

 

 Batiuk, S. Schloen, S. and Klassen S.

There and Back Again: Tayinat`s Tale.

 

 

 CRANE at ICAANE April 14-18, 2021 Bologne, Italy (Virtual meeting)

 

CRANE SESSION CRANE 2.0: Large-Scale Data Analysis and the Reconstruction of Human-Environment Interaction in the Ancient Near East

 

Harrison, T.

CRANE 2.0: Large-Scale Data Analysis and the Reconstruction of Human-Environment    Interaction in the Ancient Near East

 

Chandan, D. and Peltier, R.

Climate of the Ancient Near East from the Early Holocene (9000 kya) to the Middle    Holocene (6000 kya)

 

Welton, L.

Agent-Based Modelling of Human-Climate Interactions in the Ancient Near East.

 

Manning, S.

Resolving Timescale and Multi-Year Human-Scale Climate Impacts in the East Mediterranean.

 

Philip, G., Johnson, L., Welton, L., El-Bashaireh, K., Al-Shorman, A., Montgomery, J., Nowell, G., and Gröcke, D,

Isotopic Research as a Tool for Reconstructing Human-Environment Interaction in the Near East.

 

Deckers, K., De Gruchy, M., Riehl, S., Tumolo, V., and Lawrence, D.

Vegetation Reconstruction in the CLaSS (Climate, Landscape, Settlement and Society) Project.

 

Monastero, J.

2021 Conceiving a new dimension of documentation: 3D data management at Karkemish. ICAANE 2021

 

 

Middle East/Europe joint PAGES Land6K meeting 9-10 July 2020; times in London GMT

 

Organizers: Nicki Whitehouse (University of Glasgow) and Dan Lawrence (University of Durham)

 

 9th July 2020

 

2:00 pm – Dan Lawrence and Nicki Whitehouse: brief introduction to the aims of the meeting

2:10 pm – Marco Madella, Kathy Morrison & Nicki Whitehouse: Over-view of global land use classification, mapping, and per capita land use values

2:40 pm – Emily Hammer: Implementation of the LandCover6k land use classification system and mapping methods within the LandCover6k database: an example from Mesopotamia and Arabia at 6kya.

3:00-3:10 – Questions/Discussion; brief break (Chair: Kathy Morrison)

3:15 pm – Dan Lawrence and Lynn Welton – Middle East mapping continued – method development and preliminary results

4:00 pm – Questions/Discussion; brief break (Chair: Marco Madella)

4:15 pm – Nicki Whitehouse: Over-view European mapping

4:20 pm – Marc Vander Linden: European mapping – method development and LU1 results

4:40 pm - Nicki Whitehouse: European mapping of animal/plant data & conversion to LU2 and LU3.

4:50 pm – Questions/Discussion; brief break (Chair: Lynn Welton)

5pm End

 

10th July 2020

 

2pm – Lynn Welton and Dan Lawrence: Comparison of European and Middle Eastern mapping approaches in the Middle East region

2:30 pm – Open discussion: comparison of methods and results (Chair: Dan Lawrence) *

3pm – Brief break (10 minutes)

3:10 - Open Discussion of findings, wider implications and next steps (Chair: Nicki Whitehouse)*

5pm - Close

 

 

ASOR Annual Meeting (Virtual) November 2020

 

Grand Challenges for Digital Research in Archaeology and Philology (Workshop)  Chairs   Prosser, M. C., and Harrison, T.P

 

Schloen, D. and Schloen, S.

On-site Digitization and Visualization of Stratigraphic and Spatial Relations Using   OCHRE

 

 

 

ICAANE April 14-18, 2020 Bologne, Italy (canceled due to COVID)

CRANE SESSION

 

Harrison, T.

CRANE 2.0 Research Landscape: An Open Project.

 

Peltier, R. and Chandan, D.

High resolution Climate Modelling of the Middle East.

 

Welton, L.

Agent-Based Modelling of Human-Climate Interactions in the Ancient Near East.

 

Manning, S.

Resolving Timescale and Mult-Year Human-scale Climate Impacts in the East Mediterranean.

 

Johnson, L. Philip, G., el-Bashaireh, K., Gröke, D., Montgomery, J., Nowell, G., Al-Shorman, A., and Welton, L.

Isotopic Research as a Tool for Reconstructing Human-Environment Interaction in the Near East.

 

Riehl, S.

Understanding Local Climate Patterns in the Ancient Near east: Stable Carbon and Oxygen Isotope Measurements of Bronze and Iron Age Seeds.

 

Deckers, K., De Gruchy, M., Tumolo, V., and Lawrence, D.

Vegetation reconstruction in the CLaSS (Climate, landscape, Settlement and Society) Project.

 

 

CRANE Climate Modelling Workshop: Friday March 15, 2019, Toronto

 

9:00-10:00 Breakfast

 

10:00-12:00 Climate Modelling Workshop

 

Meeting Agenda

1. Introduction and Welcome (Lynn)

2. Discussion of CRANE Climate Modelling and related issues

a. Methodology, Timeline, Updates, etc. (Dick, Deepak)

b. Dynamic Vegetation Modelling, Land Surface Modelling (Dick, Deepak, Sandy, Colin)

c. Landcover 6K, Pollen Database, Crop Modelling (Sandy, Colin)

d. Younger Dryas Workshop and its Outcomes (Michael)

e. Dendrochronological data as a climate proxy (Sturt)

3. Discussion of related projects

a. CHEMI Project, Université de Montréal (Ariane)

b. CLaSS Project, Durham University (Graham)

4. Future Directions, Action Items (Lynn)

 

*9 presentations

 

CRANE AGM Archaeological Data Analysis and Cross Project Collaboration

 

Saturday March 16, 2019, Toronto

 

8:55-9:00 Welcome Remarks (Tim Harrison, Toronto)

9:00-9:30 CRANE’s Agent-Based Modelling Project (Lynn Welton, Durham)

9:30-10:00 CRANE’s Climate Modelling Project: Overview and Update (Richard  Peltier and Deepak Chandan, Toronto)

10:00-10:30 Creating Timeframes for High-Resolution Analysis of Climate-Environment-  History Interrelationships (Sturt Manning, Cornell)

10:30-10:45 Coffee Break

10:45-11:15 The OrientGIS Project and the Open Science Perspective (Nicolò Marchetti, Bologna)

11:15-11:45 Kerkenes and CRANE: Collaborative Research and New Endeavors (Scott  Branting, UCF)

11:45-12:15 Fuelling the Early State Project (Graham Philip, Durham)

12:15-12:45 The Southern Phoenicia Project (David Schloen, Chicago)

12:45-14:00 Lunch Break

14:00-14:15 Automated Sherd Matching with Machine Learning (Eugene Fiume and Andy Chow, Toronto)

14:15-14:30 CRANE 3D Modeling Project: Where Do We Go in 2.0? (Stephen Batiuk, Toronto)

14:30-14:45 Seeing like a Machine – Neural Networks and Other Adventures (Shawn Graham, Carleton)

14:45-15:00 Building Kunulua Block by Block: Exploring Archaeology through Minecraft (Dominique Langis-Barsetti, Toronto)

15:00-15:15 More than Entertainment? Exploring Research Applications in Virtual Reality  (Kevin Fisher and Jem Tari, UBC)

15:15-15:30 Research Engagement and Impact: The ROM-CRANE Partnership (Zoe McQuinn, Royal Ontario Museum)

15:30-16:00  Coffee Break

 

*14 presentation

 

 2018

 

CRANE Younger Dyras Meeting Partnership Grant Planning Meeting  (November 8-9) Toronto, ON

 

Day 1:

 

Richard Peltier (University of Toronto, Physics): Global perspectives on the Younger Dryas (Climate Impacts of Freshwater Forcing of the Ocean General Circulation:The Origins of the Younger-Dryas)

Yigal Erel (Hebrew University, Earth Science): Climate Records of the Younger Dryas in the Levant

 

Day 2:

 

Leore Grosman (Hebrew University, Archaeology): The Archaeological Correlates of the Younger Dryas in the Levant (The Natufian culture dynamics during the Younger Dryas event)

Liora Horwitz (Hebrew University, National Natural History Collections): Faunal Perspectives o Human Adaptation during the Younger Dryas in the Levant

Gideon Hartman (University of Connecticut, Anthropology): Isotopes, Climate and Adaptation during the Younger Dryas in the Levant

Elisabetta Boaretto (Weizmann Institute, Kimmel Centre): Radiocarbon Dating the Archaeology of the Younger Dryas in the Levant (Climate and Cultural Changes in the Southern Levant 15-11 KY BP)

E.B. Banning (University of Toronto, Anthropology) : Calibration and Refining the Radiacarbon Chronology of the Younger Dryas in the Levant

 

*7 presentations

 

 The Life Cycle of Archaeological and Philological Research Data in OCHRE. ASOR Annual Meeting, Denver Nov. 14-17, 2018. Chair: Miller Prosser

 

2011

CRANE Partnership Grant Planning Meeting (September 24) Toronto, ON

9:00 Welcome/Introductions (T. Harrison)

9:30 CRANE Project Overview

10:00 SSHRC Partnership Grant Application Process

10:30 OCHRE Computational System (D. Schloen)

11:30 Orontes Watershed Group, Chronometric and Paleoenvironmental Studies

12:00 Simulation/Visualization Studies (J. Christiansen/D. Schloen)

1:00 CRANE Governance Structure

1:30 Partnership/Institutional Agreements

2:00 Budget Breakdown and Allocation

2:30 Next Steps and Deadlines

3:00 Discussion

 

2012

Introduction to OCHRE

- Sandra Schloen and Miller Prosser

 

2013

Archaeological Data Integration and Cross-Project Analysis (March 22) Toronto, ON

9:30 Welcome (Tim Harrison)

9:45 Introduction to CRANE (Stephen Batiuk and Kevin Fisher)

10:30 An Introduction to OCHRE (Miller Prosser)

11:30 Discussion

1:30 Networks and Connectivity in the Early Bronze Age: Future Prospects for Computational Research in the North Orontes Valley (Steve Edwards)

2:00 Modeling Social Complexity and the Rise of States in the Iron Age Northern Levant: Future Prospects utilizing the CRANE Framework (Darren Joblonkay)

2:30 Towards an Orontes Watershed GIS: Issues and Prospects (Dominique Langis-Barsetti)

3:00 Discussion

3:45 Demonstrating Prospects for OCHRE Use in CRANE Projects (Miller Prosser)

4:30 Discussion

 

CRANE Partnership Grant Planning Meeting (March 23) Toronto, ON

Welcome and Introductions (T. Harrison)

Overview of Stage (Year ) Two Projects

-Project Data Integration (Acharneh [M. Fortain and L. Cooper], Homs/Nebi Mend [G. Philip])

-Petrography Project (G. Philip)

-Paleoenvironment Project (G. Philip)

-Chronometric Project (S. Manning)

-Modeling and Visualization Projects (E. Fiume and J. Christiansen)

OCHRE and Technical Coordination of Stage Two Projects (S. Schloen)

Lunch

Collaboration and Partnership Agreements

Milestone Report and Scheduling

CRANE/SSHRC Administrative Procedures, Budgeting, Reimbursements

Other Business

 

2014

Ceramic Analysis, Data Integration, and Cross-Project Collaboration (March 21) Toronto, ON

9:15 Welcome and Introductions (Tim Harrison)

9:30 Ceramic Shape Recognition Project (Steven Edwards)

10:00 3D Artifact and Pottery Visualizations (Stephen Batiuk)

10:45 Durham Petrography Project (Kamal Badreshany)

11:15 Levantine Ceramics Project (Andrea Berlin)

11:45 Discussion

2:00 OCHRE Data Integration Update (Stanley Klassen/Rasha Elendari)

2:30 CRANE Cross-Project Analysis and Collaboration (Miller Prosser)

3:00 Collaborative Programming in an Application Programing Interface (Raoul Alwani)

3:30 Discussion

4:00 Archaeological Data Mining Using the CRANE Framework (Darren Joblonkay)

4:30 3-D Visualizations of Landscapes, Urban Settlements, and Architecture (Stephen Batiuk/Dominique Langis-Barsetti)

5:00 Discussion

 

CRANE Business Meeting (March 22) Toronto, ON

Director’s Report (T. Harrison)

Progress Report of Stage (Year) Two Projects

-Paleoenvironment Project (G. Philip)

-Chronometric Project (S. Manning)

-Archaeobotany Project (D. Karakaya)

-Ceramic Database Project (L. Cooper/L. Welton)

-Simulation Project (J. Christiansen and L. Welton)

OCHRE and Technical Coordination of Stage Two Projects (S. Schloen/M. Prosser)

Financial Report and 2014-2015 Budget

CRANE Communication Strategy

Collaboration and Partnership Agreements

Milestone Report and Mid-Term Review

Other Business

 

CRANE Data Integration Workshop (M. Prosser)

Durham Team (June)

Tübingen Team (June)

Toronto Team (September)

 

The Syrian Middle Orontes Valley: Excavations and Surveys (October 11-13) Quebec City, QC

 

October 11

INVITED PROJECTS

9:00 Welcome and Introductions (Michel Fortin & Tim Harrison)

9:30 The PaleoSYR project (Frank Braemer & Bernard Geyer, Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis & Université Lumière Lyon 2)

10:30 Tell Nasriyah Excavations (Dominique Parayre & Martin Sauvage (CNRS - Nanterre))

11:30 The Hama Region: Survey and Excavations (Karin Bartl, German Archaeological Institute - Berlin)

2:00 Tell Qarqur Excavations and the Middle Orontes Valley Survey (Jesse Casana, University of Arkansas)

3:00 Tell Arqa Excavations and the Akkar Plain Survey (Jean-Paul Thalmann, Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne)

4:00 Tell Kazel Excavations (Leila Badre, American University of Beirut)

 

October 12

CRANE PROJECT

9:00 The CRANE project (Tim Harrison, University of Toronto)

10:00 Introduction to OCHRE (Sandy Schloen, University of Chicago)

11:00 CRANE Cross-Project Analysis and Collaboration (Miller Prosser, University of Chicago)

COMPLETED DATA INTEGRATED PROJECTS

2:00 Zincirli Höyük Excavations (David Schloen, University of Chicago)

3:00 Tell Tayinat Excavations (Tim Harrison, University of Toronto)

4:00 Tell Acharneh Excavations and the Middle Orontes Survey (Michel Fortin & Espartaco Carrera, Université Laval)

 

October 13

FORTHCOMING DATA INTEGRATION PROJECTS

9:00 The ASOR Syrian Heritage Project (Andy Vaughn, American Schools of Oriental Research)

10:00 Individual and informal working sessions with project directors to discuss the feasibility of integrating their data to the CRANE database.

 

The CRANE Project: Large-Scale Data Integration and Analysis in the Orontes Watershed

Annual Meetings of the American Schools of Oriental Research, San Diego, CA. November 19-22

10:40 Introduction (Tim Harrison)

10:50 Collaborative Research in a Database Environment: Many Projects, Diverse Data, One Research Goal (Miller Prosser and Sandra Schloen)

11:10 The CRANE 3-D Ceramic Visualization and Shape Recognition Project (Tim Harrison, Lynn Welton, and Lisa Cooper)

11:30 Chronology Building in the Orontes Watershed: From Samples and Archaeology to Bayesian Chronological Modelling and Climate (Sturt Manning, Brita Lorentzen, and Catherine Kearns)

11:50 The Dissemination of Early Pottery Technology during the Neolithic of the upper Orontes Valley: A Petrographic Perspective (Kamal Badreshany)

12:10 3D Visualization Tools for Landscapes, Urban Settlements, and Architecture (Stephen Batiuk and Kevin Fisher)

 

2015

Archaeological Data Analysis and Cross-Project Collaboration (March 26-28) Toronto, ON

Thursday March 26 Crane Group Meetings

Morning: Simulation & Landscape Database Projects

9:00 Simulation Meeting (Lynn, Sandy, Miller, Tim)

11:00 Landscape Database (Sandy, Miller, Dominique, Rasha)

Afternoon: Ceramics Project

1:00 Ceramics Technical Meeting (Lynn, Sandy, Miller, Eugene, Daphne, Lisa)

2:00 Ceramics Meeting (Lynn, Lisa, Graham, Kamal, Stanley, Michael, Sandy, Miller)

5:00 Petrography Mini-Meeting (Lynn, Kamal, Stanley, Steve, Lisa, Graham)

 

Friday March 27 Archaeological Data Analysis and Cross-Project Collaboration

9:15 Welcome and Opening Remarks (Tim Harrison)

9:30 Collaborative Research in a Database Environment: The Case for Cross-Project Archaeological Investigation (Miller Prosser and Sandy Schloen, University of Chicago)

10:00 Knowledge Discovery from Archaeological Data: The Theoretical and Methodological Implications of Archaeological Data Warehouses as Analytic Environments (Darren Joblonkay, University of Toronto)

10:45 ‘Computers are Useless, They Can Only Give You Answers’: Computerized Approaches to Ceramic Analysis (Lynn Welton, University of British Columbia)

11:15 The Changing Role of Ceramics in the Upper Orontes Valley from the Neolithic to the Middle Bronze Age (Kamal Badreshany, Durham University)

11:45 Discussion

2:00 Wind Modeling in Archaeology: A Computational Fluid Dynamics Approach to Architectural Remains (Dominque Langis-Barsetti, University of Toronto)

2:30 There and Back Again: Virtual Reconstruction and Architectural Conservation at Tell Tayinat (Stephen Batiuk, University of Toronto)

3:00 Network Approaches to Early Bronze Age Toponyms and Settlement Data (Steven Edwards, University of Toronto)

3:30 Discussion

4:00 Archaeobotanical Investigations of Plant Evidence at Tell Tayinat in the Early Bronze Age (Doğa Karakaya, Tübingen University)

4:30 Towards Developing a High Resolution Timeframe for the CRANE Project: Aims, Methods, and Preliminary Results (Sturt Manning and Brita Lorentzen, Cornell University)

5:00 Discussion

 

Saturday March 28 Project Reports and Future Directions

9:30 Ceramic Database Project Update (Lisa Cooper and Lynn Welton, UBC)

10:00 The Middle Orontes Valley: Excavations, Surveys and the Prospects for Collaborative Research (Espartaco Carrera, Université Laval)

10:45 ‘Lord of the Spring’: Baalbek and Its Special Relationship to Water (Margarete van Ess, German Archaeological Institute Berlin)

11:45 Discussion

2:00 The Importance of Microenvironments in Reconstructing the Paleoenvironment and Understanding Long-term Trends in Human Activity in the Orontes Watershed: Where We Are and What We Need to Do (Graham Philip, Durham University)

2:30 The Chronology Project: Update and Plans (Sturt Manning, Cornell University)

3:00 The CRANE Simulation Project (Lynn Welton, University of British Columbia)

3:30 Discussion

4:00 The Syrian Heritage Initiative: Outcomes and Future Directions (Andy Vaughn, ASOR)

4:30 The CRANE Regional Database Project (Dominique Langis-Barsetti and Rasha Elendari, University of Toronto)

5:00 Discussion

 

CRANE Business Meeting (March 29) Toronto, ON

Director’s Report (T. Harrison)

Midterm Review Update

Financial Report and 2015-2016 Budget

Collaboration and Partnership Agreements

Other Business

 

Computational Research on the Ancient Near East (CRANE) Ceramic Workshop: Towards an Improved Integration of Ceramic and Petrographic Datasets in the Prehistoric and Bronze Age Levant (July 31-August 1) Durham University, Durham UK

Friday July 31

9:15 Welcome and Introduction (Graham Philip)

9:30 Making room for technological variability: Thinking about the diversity of local signatures of ceramic production and its integration into regional datasets (Marie Claude-Boileau)

10:10 Levantine imports in Egypt: from the EBA to the Byzantine Period (Mary Ownby)

11:20 Ceramic production at Qatna: an integrated archaeological and archaeometric approach (Lara Maritan)

12:00 The Changing Role of Ceramic Production in the Upper Orontes Valley from the Neolithic to the Early Bronze Age (Kamal Badreshany)

1:40 EBIV Ceramic Production in the Orontes Watershed: Petrography from the Amuq and Beyond (Lynn Welton)

2:20 The Early Bronze IVB ceramic in Tell Sh’airat and the middle Orontes Region (George Muamar)

2:00 Microscope time (ES230, Earth Sciences Department)

3:30 The Late Bronze Age Pottery From Tell Mishrifeh/Qatna (Shadi Shabo)

4:10 Open Discussion: Improving integration of Petrographic and Ceramic datasets

 

Saturday August 1

9:15 Welcome

9:30 The EB III-IVA1 Pottery from Tell Mardikh/Ebla: Typology, Technology and Petrography (Agnese Vacca)

10:10 The EB IVB Pottery from Tell Mardikh/Ebla: Typology, Technology and Petrography (Marta D’Andrea)

11:20 Ceramic Trends at Tell Nebi Mend during the Third Millennium BCE (Mel Kennedy)

11:40 Tell Arqa ceramic materials in the IIIrd millennium B.C. (Mathilde Jean)

1:30 Early Ceramics from the Northern Levant. Characterization, Interpretation (Olivier Nieuwenhuijse)

2:10 Open discussion: From the local to the general: how can we use ceramic datasets to address ‘big questions’?

3:10 Things to take away (Graham Philip)

 

3D Data Capture and Integration in Archaeology (March 12-13, UBC)

Part 1: 3D Data Capture (March 12)

Part 2: 3D Data Analysis, Interpretation and Publication (March 13)

 

2016

CRANE Workshop: Large-Scale Data Integration and Analysis in Near Eastern Archaeology (ICAANE – April 29, 2016)

9:00 CRANE Overview (Timothy Harrison)

9:00 Collaborative Research in a Database Environment: Putting to Rest the Problem of Unlikely Bedfellows (Miller Prosser and Sandy Schloen)

9:20 CRANE Data Integration: The Process, Results to Date, and Future Plans (Stanley Klassen)

9:40 Knowledge Discovery from Archaeological Data (KDAD): Implementation of Data Mining Techniques for Analyzing Social Organization in Northwest Syria in the Iron Age (Darren Joblonkay)

Artifact Analysis

10:00 Computers Have Data, People Want Answers: Computerized Approaches to Ceramic Analysis (Lynn Welton)

10:20 The CRANE Ceramics Project: Computational Classification and Analysis of Ceramic Data within the Orontes Watershed Region (Lisa Cooper and Lynn Welton)

10:40 EBA Transport Jars and their Role in the Development of Highly Integrated Regional Economies: A Case Study from the Northern and Central Levant (Kamal Badreshany)

Architectural Analysis and Regional Landscapes

11:30 Wind Modeling in Archaeology: An Assessment of the Feasibility of Generating Wind Models over Architectural Remains (Dominique Langis-Barsetti)

11:50 3D Visualization Tools for Landscapes, Urban Settlements and Architecture (Stephen Batiuk)

12:10 The CRANE Regional Database Project (Dominique Langis-Barsetti and Rasha Elendari)

12:30 An Exploratory Network Analysis of Toponyms in the Ebla Texts (Steven Edwards)

12:50 Discussion

Paleoenvironmental Reconstructions

14:00 Towards a High Resolution Timeframe for the CRANE Project: The North Orontes Region in the later 3rd millennium BC and later 2nd through early 1st millennium BC (Sturt Manning and Brita Lorentzen)

14:20 The Zooarchaeology of the Orontes Watershed: Current Prospects and Future Directions (David Lipovitch)

14:40 Archaeobotanical Investigations of the Ancient Flora of the Orontes Watershed (Doğa Karakaya)

15:00 Middle Orontes Valley Settlement Patterns (Espartaco Carrera and Michel Fortin)

15:20 Local Settlement Trends in the Orontes Watershed: The Intersection of Local Microenvironments and Regional Political and Economic Factors (Graham Philip)

15:40 Modelling the Interaction of Social and Environmental Processes in the Orontes Watershed: The CRANE Simulation Project (Lynn Welton and John H. Christiansen)

16:30 CRANE Business Meeting

 

CRANE Business Meetng (ICAANE – April 29, 2016)

Director’s Report (T. Harrison)

Financial Report and 2016-2017 Budget

Collaboration and Partnership Agreements

CRANE II Plans

Other Business

 

2017

 

The CRANE Project I: Large-Scale Data Integration and Analysis in Near Eastern Archaeology. Annual Meetings of the American Schools of Oriental Research, Boston. November 15-18

 

CHAIR: Timothy P. Harrison (University of Toronto)

 

2:00 Integration as Inspiration: Achieving Research Goals Using the Online Cultural and

Historical Research Environment (OCHRE) (Sandra Schloen and Miller Prosser, University of Chicago)

2:25 CRANE Data Integration: Results after the First Five Years (Stanley Klassen, University of Toronto)

2:50 Archaeological Data Mining: A Digital Key to Unlocking the Past (Darren Joblonkay, University of Toronto)

3:15 The CRANE Ceramics Project: The Challenges of Automated Sherd Matching (Andy Chow and Eugene Fiume, University of Toronto)

3:40 3D Visualization Tools for Analysis, Publication, and Public Outreach (Stephen Batiuk, University of Toronto)

 

The CRANE Project II: Chronology, Regional Landscapes, and Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction. Annual Meetings of the American Schools of Oriental Research, Boston. November 15-18

 

CHAIR: Timothy P. Harrison (University of Toronto)

 

4:20 Highly Resolved Timeframes for the CRANE Project: Bayesian Chronological Modeling on

Orontes Sites from the Third to First Millennia B.C.E. (Sturt Manning and Brita Lorentzen, Cornell University)

4:45 The CRANE Site Database Project (Dominique Langis-Barsetti, University of Toronto)

5:10 Ceramic Development in the Upper Orontes Basin from the Neolithic to the Late Bronze Age: Dealing with the Challenge of Diffuse and Dynamic Ceramic Regionalism in Ancient Syria (Kamal Badreshany, Durham University, Graham Philip, Durham University, and Melissa Kennedy, University of Sydney)

5:35 Current Progress in Archaeobotanical Research at Tell Tayinat and Zincirli (Doğa Karakaya, University of Tübingen)

6:00 Modeling the Interaction of Social and Environmental Processes in the Orontes Watershed: The CRANE Simulation Project (Lynn Welton, University of Toronto)

 

 

Papers Presented at Non CRANE workshops and meetings

2021

 

Badreshany, K., De Vreeze, M., and Philip, G.

The development of Integrated Regional Economies in the Early Bronze Age Levant: new evidence from “Combed-Ware” jars. ICAANE 2021

 

Badreshany, K., and Tumolo, V.

Combed Ware Project. Storage and transport jars in the Early Bronze Age Central and Southern Levant: new insights through a multidisciplinary approach. Session 3 of Webinar Fieldwork and New Technologies Applied to Archaeology In Lebanon. Archaeoscience , University of Lebanon – online  June 4, 2021 (two talks)

 

 Birgül, Ö.

What can phytoliths tell us about empires? Case studies from Syro-Hittite states in southeast Turkey. ICAANE 2021

 

Branting, S., Langis-Barsetti, D., Lehner, J., Tırpan, S. B., Kalaycı, T., Graff, S., Proctor, L., Yöney, N. B., Groff, A., and Robkin, J.

Expressions of Phrygian Urbanism at Kerkenes.  Archaeological Institute of American Annual Meeting (January 8). Virtual Meeting. 

 

Branting, S. et al.

The 2021 Season of the Kerkenes Project. ASOR Annual Meeting  (November 17-20).

 

Curci, A., Maini, E., Cavriani, M., Calcagnile, L., Demarchi, B., Quarta, G., Zaina, F.

A giraffe bone from the Neo-Assyrian palace compound at Karkemish? Influences and connections between Assyria and Egypt during the Iron Age III. ICAANE 2021

 

 D’Orazio, C.

Sealing practices in the Near East during the Late Bronze II period: aspects of inter-regional integration in the age of internationalism. ICAANE 2021

 

Gallerani V. and Vezzoli, V.

Islamic Europos. ICAANE 2021

 

Giacosa, G.

Defining “ceramic communities”: models of interaction between settlements in the Northern Levant during the Iron Age (12th-7th centuries BCE) ICAANE 2021

 

 Harrison, S.

The Climate-Humans-Climate Nexus: Modelling the Impact of Climate on Agricultural Productivity and Agricultural Expansions on Global Climate. ICAANE 2021

(Key note Speaker – Environmental Archaeology)

 

 Herrmann, V., Schloen, D., Soldi, S., Manning, S.

Urbanization and State Formation at Iron Age Sam’al (Zincirli Turkey). ICAANE 2021.

 

Karakaya Doğa

Plant ways in Middle Bronze Age Anatolia – An archaeobotanical investigation of seeds and fruit remains at Zincirli Höyük, south-central Turkey. New Biological Lecture Series. Österreichisches Archäologisches institur (ÖAI) der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (ÖAW) - online (June 8, 2021).

 Archaeobotany of Syro-Anatolian city-states: current research and future prospects. ICAANE 2021

 

 Langis-Barsetti, D.

Teaching the Neo-Hittite world one block at a time: Minecraft as an educational tool in    Archaeological Outreach. ICAANE 2021

 

Peker, H. and Marchetti, N.

New results on Late Bronze II Karkemish from the Turco-Italian excavations: Anatomy of an imperial administration. ICAANE 2021

 

Roberto, G.

The Iron Age II funerary ritual in the Middle Euphrates area in light of the new excavations at the necropolis of Yunus. ICAANE 2021

 

 Serrone, E. and Maini, E.

Zooarchaeological analysis of the Lower Palace Area of Karkemish (Gaziantep, Turkey):  AreaC from the Late Bronze Age to the Iron IV period. ICAANE 2021

 

Soldi S.

Red Slip pottery from Zincirli: connecting Syria and Anatolia in the Iron Age. ICAANE 2021

 

Welton, L., Riehl, S., Lawrence, D., and  Reculeau, H.

Fertile Ground: Methods for Estimating Ancient Agricultural Productivity. ASOR Annual Meeting  (November 17-20).

 

Zaher, R.

 

Patterns Amidst Entropy? A Quantitative Investigation into the Development of     Sculptural Traditions and Stylistic Motifs in Portal Lions of Iron Age Syro-Anatolia.    ICAANE 2021

 

2020

 

Badreshany, K., De Vreeze, M., and Philip, G.

Understanding the Development of Complex Society in Lebanon during the Early Bronze  Age. ASOR Virtual Annual Meeting November 2020

 

Branting, S., Lehner, J., Tırpan, S. B., Langis-Barsetti, D., Kalaycı, T., Graff, S., Proctor, L., Yöney, N. B., Groff, A., and Robkin, J.

The 2020 Season of the Kerkenes Project. ASOR Virtual Annual Meeting November 2020

 

Chandan, D. and Peltier, R.

African Humid Period Sustained by Robust Vegetation, Soil and Lake Feedbacks. PIMP    Conference

 

Fisher, K.

Beyond entertainment? Developing a Virtual Reality Application for a Late Bronze Age    Cypriot City. ASOR Virtual Annual Meeting November 2020

 

Harrison, T.P.

Perspectives from Field Excavations, Best Practices for Digital Scholarship (Workshop).    ASOR Virtual Annual Meeting November 2020

 

Herrick, H., Berna, F., Kulick, R., and Fisher, K.

Assessing the raw materials utilized in lime production: a case study of plasters and    mortars from Kalavasos-Ayios Dhimitrios, Cyprus. ASOR Virtual Annual Meeting November 2020

 

Herrmann, V., Schloen, D., Morgan K., and Soldi, S.

Iron Age Urbanization and Middle Bronze Age Networks at Zincirli Höyük: Recent    Results from the Chicago-Tübingen Excavations. ASOR Virtual Annual Meeting  November 2020

 

Kulick, R., Berna, F., Fisher, K., Kearns, C., and Manning, S.

Analyzing socio-environmental processes in south-central Cyprus: Geoarchaeological    case studies from the Vasilikos and Maroni Valleys. ASOR Virtual Annual Meeting November 2020

 

Langis-Barsetti, D.,

Burning Kerkenes down one pixel at a time: Modeling the destruction by fire of an    Anatolian Iron Age City. ASOR Virtual Annual Meeting November 2020

 

Lawrence, D., Welton, L., and de Gruchy, M.

Reconstructing Long Term Patterns of Land Use and Productivity in the Ancient Near    East: A Preliminary View, British Association of Near Eastern Archaeology Conference, January 2020

 

Philip, G, and Kennedy, M.

Understanding the 4th and 3rd millennia cal. BC in the Orontes Valley: a well- dated    material culture sequence from Tell Nebi Mend. ASOR Virtual Annual Meeting  November 2020

 

Robkin J.

Understanding Use of Space in Ancient Cities: Modeling and Simulation of Kerkenes,    Central Anatolia. ASOR Virtual Annual Meeting November 2020

 

Welton, L.

LandCover6k, CLaSS and CRANE: Background, Methodology and Progress for     the Middle East Region. CLaSS Workshop, December 2020.

 

Welton, L. and Philip, G.

Changing Animal Herding Strategies in the 4th – 3rd millennia BCE in the Upper    Orontes Valley: Preliminary Isotopic Data (δ18O, δ13C, 87Sr/86Sr) from Tell NebiMend. ASOR Virtual Annual Meeting November 2020

 

ICAANE INDEPENDENT 14-18, 2020 Bologne, Italy (cancelled due to COVID)

 

Curci, A., Maini, E., Cavriani, M., Demarachi, B., Calcagnile, L., Quarta, G., Zaina, F.

A giraffe bone from the Neo-Assyrian palace compound at Karkemish and the     connections between Assyria and Egypt during the Iron Age III.

 

D’Orazio, C.

Late Bronze II sealing practices I Northern Syria: continuity and change in light of new evidence from Karkemish.

 

Gallerani, V. and Cardini, V.

The transition between the Achaemenid and the Hellenistic period at Karkemish.

 

Giacosa, G. and D’Orazio, C.

No one used to fill Kubaba’s granary: Public storage strategies at Karkemish after the fall of the Hittite Empire.

 

Guarino, G., Alaimo, D., and Valeri, M.

Magnetometry in the Outer Town of Karkemish new discoveries.

 

Harrison, S.

The Climate-Humans-Climate Nexus: Modelling the Impact of Climate on Agricultural Productivity and Agricultural Expansions on Global Climate

 

(Key note Speaker – Environmental Archaeology)

 

Herrmann, V., Schloen, D., Soldi, S., Manning, S.

Urbanization and State Formation at Iron Age Sam’al (Zincirli Turkey).

 

Kamal Badreshany, Philip, G.

The development of Integrated Regional Economoies in the Early Bronze Age Levant: new evidence from “Combed-Ware” jars.

 

Langis-Barsetti, D.

Teaching the Neo-Hittite world one block at a time: Minecraft as an educational tool in archaeological outreach.

 

Maini, E., Serrone, E., and Cardini, V.

Persian husbandry. New evidence of faunal remains from the Achaemenid levels in the Lower palace of Karkemish.

 

Monastero, J.

Conceiving a new dimension of documentation: 3D data management at Karkemish.

 

Shafiq, R.

Bioarchaeological analyses from two neighbouring near eastern capitals: Tell Atchana (Alalakh) and Karkemish – Turkey.

 

 2019

 

Fisher. K.

Toward a social life of things on Late Bronze Age Cyprus. Paper presented at The   Archaeology of Cyprus and the wider Mediterranean. A conference honour of A. Bernard  Knapp. University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus (June 7, 2019).

 

Klassen, S.

The Computational Research on the Ancient Near East (CRANE) Project: Finding innovative potentials for new and old archaeological data. ROM Daytime lecture series

 

Schloen, S.

A Computational Perspective on Biblical Archaeology. Presentation at the workshop New Perspectives on the Archaeology of the Holy Land, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Graduiertenzentrum der Theologischen Fakultät, Berlin, Germany. October 18-19, 2019.

 

2018

 

Harrison, T. P.

2018 Computational Research on the Ancient Near East (CRANE): Large-Scale Data Integration and Analysis in Near Eastern Archaeology. International Conference on the Enhancement of the Archaeological Heritage in Iraq.

2018 The ‘Lady of Tayinat’ and Female Representation in Neo-Hittite Art. ICAANE Munich. April 3-7, 2018.

2018 The ‘Lady of Tayinat’ and Other Discoveries at Kunulua, Royal City of the Kingdom of Palastin/Walastin. ASOR Annual Meeting, Denver Nov. 14-17.

 

Herrmann, J. T.

2018 The Urban Development of Sam'al (Zincirli) from the Perspective of Remote Sensing. ICAANE Munich. April 3-7, 2018.

 

Herrmann V. and Schloen D.

2018 Zincirli, Turkey: Recent Results from the Chicago-Tübingen Excavations. ICAANE Munich. April 3-7, 2018.

2018 Zincirli Höyük, Turkey: Recent Results from the Chicago-Tübingen Excavations. ASOR Annual Meeting, Denver Nov. 14-17.

2018 Lessons Learned over 12 Seasons at Zincirli, Turkey. ASOR Annual Meeting, Denver Nov. 14-17.

 

Herzog, N. and Herrmann, V.

2018 Using OCHRE in the Analysis of Archaeological Data Concerning Food Production and Consumption at Zincirli, Turkey. ASOR Annual Meeting, Denver Nov. 14-17.

 

Prosser. M and Schloen, S.

2018 Turning the Page on Digital Publication. ASOR Annual Meeting, Denver Nov. 14-17.

 

Welton, L.

2018 Panalist - Integrative and Transdisciplinary Approaches to Research, (OARCC) Ontario Advaced Research Computing Congress, Toronto May 16th. http://ontarioarccongress.ca/integrative-and-transdisciplinary-approaches-to-research

2018 Continuity and Innovation During The Iron I at Tell Tayinat: Local Traditions, Sea Peoples and the Land of Palistin in Broader Perspective. ICAANE Munich. April 3-7, 2018.

2018 Destruction and Renewal in the late Third Millennium B.C.E.: Results of Recent Excavtions at Tell Tayinat. ASOR Annual Meeting, Denver Nov. 14-17.

 

2017

Badreshany, K.

2017 Instruments of Imperialism? What Transport Jars Reveal about Economy and Administration in the Earliest World Empires. The British Association for Near Eastern Archaeology Annual Meeting, London, Jan 4th-6th

 

Batiuk, S.

2017 The ‘Kingdon of Idols’: recent Investigations at Tell Tayinat (Ancient Kunulua, Biblical Calno) in Southeastern Turkey. AIA lecture Brown University, March 2.

 

Harrison, T. P.

2017 Tayinat in Time and Space: A Synthesis. (Session) Tell Tayinat (Ancient Kunulua): The Shifting of Fortunes of a Bronze and Iron Age Levantine Capital. AIA Annual Meeting, Toronto, ON.

2017 Cultural Heritage Preservation and the Importance of Community Memory in Zones of Conflict. Conference on ‘Facilitating the Study of West Asian Civilization 2: Ancient West Asian Civilization and the Modern World’, Tokyo, Japan, March 3-4.

2017 The Unifying Power of Cultural Heritage. Friends of ARIT Lecture Discussant, Ankara, February 2.

 

Karakaya, D.

2017 Tayinat Höyük’te Arkeobotanik Calismalar. Uluslararasi Kazi, Araştirma Ve Arkeometri Sempozyumu, Bursa, May 22-26.

 

Prosser, M.

2017 Time and Place in Humanities Research (OCHRE). University of Chicago, Digital Humanities.

 

Welton, L.

2017 Reconstructing Identities in a Dark Age: The Regeneration of Northern Levantine Society in the Early Iron Age. Center for Middle Eastern Studies Lecture, University of Chicago, June 2017

 

2016

Badreshany, K.

2016  Phoenician Amphorae from the Late Iron Age Settlement at Tell el-Burak: Typology, Petrography, and Content Analyses, 1st Amphorae in the Phoenician and Punic World Congress: The State of the Art, Ghent, Belgium, December 15-17th

 

Batiuk, S.

2016 The Middle East Cultural Heritage Crisis and the Urgency of Coordinated Large-Scale Data Collection and Analysis. (Session) Protecting Cultural heritage: Lessons Learned. Assaulting Cultural Heritage: Isis’s Fight to Destroy Diversity in Iraq and Syria. Concordia University, Montreal QC. September 25-26.

2016 Preserving and Presenting the History of the Antioch Region in Turkey. Presented at the Canadian Society for Mediterranean Studies, Ottawa Chapter, September 25.

2016 The Computational Research on the Ancient near East (CRANE) Project: Large-Scale Data Integration, Analysis, Visualization and Models for Data Sharing. (Session) Cyber-archaeology in the Middle East Today. American Schools of Oriental Research Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX, November 16-19.

 

Fisher, K.

2016 Prospects and pitfalls of a digital archaeology: A case from Bronze Age Cyprus. Laboratory of Archaeology lunchtime seminar series, UBC.

 

Harrison, T. P.

2016 Cultural Heritage Preservation and the Importance of Community Memory in Zones of Conflict. (Session) Protecting Cultural Heritage: Lessons Learned. Assaulting Cultural Heritage. Isis’s Fight to Destroy Diversity in Iraq and Syria. Concordia University, Montreal QC. September 25-26.

2016 The Cultural Heritage Crisis and the Urgency of Coordinated Large-Scale Data Collection and Analysis in Near Eastern Archaeology. (Keynote ICAANE – April 29, 2016)

 

Harrison, T. P.

2016  Harnessing the Past to Build the Future.” TEDxUofT 2016 Conference (Theme: Edge), March 19.

 

Joblankay, D.

2016 Association Mining Algorithms for Elucidating Community-Based Practices in the Ancient Near East: A View from Tell Mastuma, Syria. (Session) Encoding data for Digital Collaboration. American Schools of Oriental Research Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX. November 16-19.

 

Karakaya, D.

2016 Archaeobotanical Investigations of the Ancient Flora of the Orontes Watershed. Institut für Naturwissenschaftliche Archäologie Collequim, Universität Tübingen, July 22.

 

Karakaya, D. and Riehl, S.

2016 Agricultural Patterns at Tell Tayinat and Beyond: The Archaeobotanical and Stable Carbon Isotope Evidence. (Workshop) The Iron Age I in the Levant: A View from the North. American Schools of Oriental Research Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX. November 16-19.

 

Prosser, M.

2016 More Than Just a Pretty Geodatabase: Spatial Data Integration using the Online Cultural and historical Environment (OCHRE). (Session) Cyber-archaeology in the Middle East Today. American Schools of Oriental Research Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX, November 16-19.

 

2015

Badreshany, K.

2015  Innovative Exchanges: The Introduction of Pottery Technology in the Upper Orontes Watershed and Lebanon, The British Association for Near Eastern Archaeology Annual Meeting, London, Jan 7th-9th

 

Badreshany, K.

2015 Shedding Light on the Opaque: The Usefulness of Metal Oxide Minerals in Determining Provenance, Raw Material Composition, and the Mixing of Clay from Multiple Sources in Ceramic Petrography, United Kingdom Archaeological Science Biennial Conference, Durham University, April 8th-11th

 

Batiuk, S.

2015 The Computational Research on the Ancient Near East (CRANE) Project: Large-Scale Data Integration for the Preservation and Dissemination of Archaeological Data. Presented at the Joint NEAIG/ASOR Session: Politics and Archaeology in the Middle East: New Paradigms of Cooperation. American Institute of Archaeology Annual Meeting. East Lansing Chapter for the Harald Ingholt Lectureship in Near Eastern Archaeology. New Orleans, January 8-11.

2015 Cultural Heritage in Crisis: Archaeology in the time of ISIS. Presented at the Archaeological Institute of America, Ottawa Chapter. December 10, 2015.

 

Harrison, T.

2015 Protecting Our Shared Heritage (Session) Syria-International Summit to Promote Collaboration, Atlanta, GA. November 18-21.

 

Langis-Barsetti, D.

2015 The CRANE Site Database and GIS Project: towards a Regional Understanding of the Orontes Watershed and its Surroundings. (Session) Satellite-Based Monitoring of Cultural Heritage in Conflict Situations. American Schools of Oriental Research Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA. November 18-21.

2015 The ancient Anatolian city: A CFD approach to Iron Age urbanism at the site of Kerkenes Dağ, Turkey. (Session) NMC Graduate Symposium, Toronto, ON.

 

Welton, L.

2015 Examining the Resettlement of Tell Tayinat: The Evidence from the Earliest Iron I Levels. (Session) The Iron Age I in the Levant: A view from the North II. American Schools of Oriental Research Annual Meeting, November 2015.

 

2014

Badreshany, K.

2014  Ceramic Development in the Upper Orontes Basin, Computational Research on the Ancient Near East Annual meeting, University of Toronto, March 12-15th

 

Badreshany, K.

2014  The Role of Transport Jars in the Development of Highly Integrated Regional Economies during the Early Bronze Age in the Levant: A Petrographic Perspective, Invited Lecture. Department of Archaeology, University of Mainz, April 30th

 

Batiuk, S.

2014 CRANE's 3D Modeling Initiative. UofT Archaeology Research Day talk.

 

Batiuk, S. and Fisher, K.

2014 The Computational Research on the Ancient Near East (CRANE) Project: Large-scale Data Integration, Analysis, and Modeling in the Orontes Watershed. Presented at the 5th International Conference on Remote Sensing in Archaeology From Space to Place Initiative: The Age of Sensing. Duke University, Durham, NC. October 13-15.

 

Edwards, S.

2014 Big Data and the Ancient Near East: New Approaches to Data Structure, Analysis and Visualization. (Session) Cyber-Archaeology I. Annual Meetings of the American Schools of Oriental Research, San Diego, CA. November 19-22.

2014 Settlement Connectivity and Power Relationships in Early Bronze Age Northwest Syria: An Integrative Geospatial and Computational Approach. Society of American Archaeology’s Annual Meetings. Austin, TX (April 23-27).

 

Fisher, K.

2014 A Digital Revolution? 3D Modeling of Built Environments and Landscapes Using Photogrammetry. Presented at Digital Perspectives on the Past: New Methods and Research in Digital Archaeology. (Symposium) University of British Columbia, Vancouver

2014 Prospects for a paperless archaeology: Case studies from Guatemala and Cyprus. Pixelating Digital Humanities Series, UBC Library

2014 Digital approaches to ancient cities:  archaeological case studies from Ayios Dhimitrios to El Zotz.  Department of Greek and Roman Studies seminar, University of Victoria

2014 A digital revolution in archaeology? New ways of looking at old things. Digital Salon, University of British Columbia

 

Fortin, M.

2014 Projet d’intégration et d’analyse des données archéologiques pur la vallée de l’Oronte (Syrie). For Les Archeo-Vendredis du Groupe de Recherche en Archéométrie, Laval QC, Oct 10th.

 

Harrison, T.P.

2014  Digging on the Syrian Frontier: Reflections on the Role of Archaeology in a Conflict Zone.” Conference on, ‘The History and Impact of German Archaeology in the Near and Middle East’, University of Toronto, November 7-8.

 

Joblonkay, D.

2014 From Deep Structure to Discursive Formation: Advances in Knowledge Discovery from Archaeological Data Warehouses Utilizing the CRANE Framework. (Session) Theoretical and Anthropological Approaches to the Near East I. American Schools of Oriental Research Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA. November 19-22.

2014 Data Rich but Information Poor: Archaeological Databases as Rich Depositories of Information or ‘Data Graveyards’.  Graduate Conference on Archaeological Sciences

and the Ancient Mediterranean Environment. University of Toronto, Toronto, ON. March 8.

 

Phillip, G.

2014 2 talks given (1 on ceramics and 1 Museum Archaeology Day)

 

Prosser, M.

2014 Beyond Digital Imaging: Integrating Digital Images and Philological Research Data. (Session) Technology and Texts: new Scientific and Digital Methods for the Analysis of Near Eastern Writings I. Annual Meetings of the American Schools of Oriental Research, San Diego, CA. November 19-22.

2014 Zincirli workshop at Tübingen

 

Welton, L.

2014 Unearthing Neo-Hittite Palistin: The Regeneration of an Iron Age Kingdom in the Eastern Mediterranean”, AIA Vancouver Chapter lecture, December 2014.

2014   Northern Levantine Spheres of Interaction: The Role of the Amuq in the Early Bronze Age. (Session) The Settlement Landscape of the Orontes Valley in the Fourth through Second Millennia BCE. International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (ICAANE), June 2014

2014   Bridging the Gap: The Iron I-Iron II Transition at Tell Tayinat. (Session) The Iron I to Iron I Transition in the Northern Levant. American Schools of Oriental Research Annual Meeting, November 2014.

 

2013

Fisher, K.

2013 Archaeology Day at UBC, Vancouver, BC

 

Fisher, K.; Batiuk, S.; and Schloen, D.

2013 The Computational Research on the Ancient Near East (CRANE) Project: Large-Scale Data Integration and Analysis in the Orontes Watershed. (Session) Landscapes of Settlement in the Ancient Near East I. American Schools of Oriental Research Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD. November 20-23.

 

Welton, L. and Batiuk Steve, S.

2013   Settlement in the Amuq Plain in the Early Bronze Age. (Session) The Amuq Survey. American Schools of Oriental Research Annual Meeting, November 2013

Awards

 

2018

Kulik, R.

Bronze Age Urban Environments on Crete and Cyprus: Investigating Socio-Environmental Interactions using Geoarchaeology. CAORC 2018 Multi Country-

Research Fellow. https://www.caorc.org/single-post/2018/05/14/CAORC-Announces-2018-Fellowship-Recipients

 

 

 

Exhibitions

2021

Klassen, . S

Science Rendezvous online, St. George Campus U of T

 

2020

Harrison, T., Klassen, S., and Kabatiar, R.

Science Rendezvous, St. George Campus U of T. (Cancelled due to COVID) not     counted

 

2019

Harrison, T., Klassen, S., and Kabatiar, R.

Science Rendezvous, St. George Campus U of T.

 

Work by individual CDM team members was showcased at the Centre for Digital Media Industry Showcase, Centre for Digital Media, Vancouver BC (May 2, 2019).

 

2018

Harrison, T., Welton, L., Klassen, S., and Kabatiar, R.

Science Rendezvous, St. George Campus U of T.

 

Klassen, S., Langi-Barsetti, D., and Ksiezak, A.

CRANE table at Archaeology Day at the ROM.

 

Klassen, S.

Tayinat display at Friday Night Live at the ROM.

 

2017

Batiuk, S.

 Archaeology Day Table at the ROM.

 

Frederick C., and Murray, D.

The Medium is the Message: Media and Mediation in Archaeology. TAG Conference, Toronto, ON (May 15-26).

 

2015

Batiuk, S.

  Archaeology Day Table at the ROM.

 

2014

Batiuk, S.

 Archaeology Day Table at the ROM.

 

Unmanned

Activity Station on Dendrochronology. Curators Corner program. ROM Ancient Cultures.

 

2013

Batiuk, S

  Archaeology Weekend Table at the ROM

 

Batiuk, S., and Fisher, K.

  Archaeology Day Table at the ROM

 

Poster Presentations

2017

Karakaya, D., and Lipovitch, D.

2017 Plants and Bones in Context: The Spatial Distribution of Floral and Faunal Remains in the Neo-Assyrian Sacred Precinct at Tell Tayinat, Amuq Valley, South-central Turkey. American Schools of Oriental Research Annual Meeting, Boston, MA. November 15-18.

 

2016

Karakaya, D., and Morgan K.

2016 New evidence for the Middle Bronze Age in the Islahiye Valley: Preliminary archaeobotanical results and archaeological context of a recently excavated destruction layer at Zincirli Höyük, Gaziantep, Turkey. American Schools of Oriental Research Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX. November 16-19.

 

2014

Edwards, S. and Joblonkay, D.

2014 CRANE (Computational Research on the Ancient Near East). SSEA Annual Meeting. Toronto, ON.

 

Posters

 

2021

Cardini, V., D’Orazio, C., Giacosa,G., Marchetti, N., Mariani,E., Peker, H., Rivoltella, R., and Rosso, S.

The Iron I administrative complex in area C East at Karkemish. ICAANE 2021

 

Cardini, V. and Gallerani V.

The transition between the Achaemenid and the Hellenistic period at Karkemish/Europos. ICAANE 2021

 

Cavaliere, F.

Experimenting on 3D GIS: The Case of Sennacherib’s South-West Palace at Nineveh.    ICAANE 2021

 

Cavriani,  M. and Ferrari, d.

The Mekhet (mkt) Project: A New GIS Analysis for the Distribution of Egyptian(izing)    Amulets in the ancient Near East. ICAANE 2021

 

Giacosa, G. and D’Orazio, C.

No one used to fill Kubaba’s granary: Public storage strategies at Karkemish after the fall   of the Hittite Empire. ICAANE 2021

 

Guarino G., Alaimo, D., and Valeri, M.

Magnetometry in the Outer Town of Karkemish: new discoveries. ICAANE 2021

 

Pizzimenti,  S.

The Bronze Age Stratigraphic Sequence of the AA Sounding on the Acropolis of     Karkemish. ICAANE 2021

 

Roberto, G. and Mariani, E.

Digging in the excavation records: the case of Woolley’s 1913 Yunus notebook. ICAANE   2021

 

 

 

Papers Presented At Non-Academic Workshops and Meetings

 

2021

Branting, S.

The Kerkenes Project: New Technologies for Exploring Ancient Cities. University of    Wisconsin-Madison Archaeology Brown Bag Lecture (February 19) Madison, WI.

 

Harrison, T.P

THE CRANE PROJECT: Large-Scale Data Analysis of the Impacts of Human-    Environment Interaction and Climate Change. UofT Data Sciences Initiative Workshops     January 22, 2021

 

2020

Blackadar, J.

The Automatic Archaeologist’ XLab - A Virtual Cultural Heritage Informatics     Lab @Carleton U Brown Bag Series (March 25, 2020) cancelled due to COVID-19 (not    counted)

 

Fisher, K. Exploring divergent paths to urbanism on Late Bronze Age Cyprus. Invited talk for Simon Fraser University Hellenic Studies Program (Jan. 28, 2020).

 

Harrison, T.P

THE CRANE PROJECT: Large-Scale Data Analysis of the Impacts of Human-Environment Interaction and Climate Change. Presidents Leader ship Retreat. The Future of Graduate Education and Research.

 

2019

Blackadar, J.

Teaching a Machine to See History February 28th, 26th Annual Underhill Graduate Colloquium, Carleton University.

 

Sigrist, D., Ha, D.,  Alnashashibi, B., Khan, Z., and Jorgersen, J.

An ancient city in VR. Presentation to faculty and students at Centre for Digital Media,   Vancouver BC (April 11, 2019).

 

Tari J.

No coding required: promising avenues in the exploitation of virtual reality as an archaeological research tool. Paper presented at UBC Archaeology Day symposium Visualizing and Virtualizing Archaeology (Mar. 16, 2019).

 

NEWSLETTERS AND BLOGS

 

2021

 

NMC Newsletter

2021  CRANE and NMC at the 12th ICAANE Virtual Meeting (04/2021)

https://mailchi.mp/f1bcd0eb070c/april-in-nmc-5190005

 

CRANE Insider

2021  CRANE e-Newsletter 2020. (3/22/2021)

2021  CRANE e-Newsletter 2020. (3/15/2021)

2021  CRANE e-Newsletter 2020. (3/08/2021)

2021  CRANE e-Newsletter 2020. (3/01/2021)

2021  CRANE e-Newsletter 2020. (1/18/2021)

 

Digital History learning Journal

2021  Reading an Old Map, Ai Style. J. Blackadar (01/9/2021)

 

2020

CRANE Insider

CRANE e-Newsletter 2020. (12/28/2020)

CRANE e-Newsletter 2020. (12/21/2020)

CRANE e-Newsletter 2020. (12/14/2020)

CRANE e-Newsletter 2020. (11/30/2020)

CRANE e-Newsletter 2020. (11/16/2020)

CRANE e-Newsletter 2020. T.P. Harrison (11/10/2020)

 

Arts and Science News

 

Capturing the ancient world in 3D for research, teaching and outreach. Chris Sasaki

 https://www.artsci.utoronto.ca/news/capturing-ancient-world-3d-research-teaching-and-   outreach

Resilience in the face of climate change: Archaeological investigations reveal human    adaptability in ancient Turkey. Sean Bettam.

 https://www.artsci.utoronto.ca/news/resilience-face-climate-change-archaeological-   investigations-reveal-human-adaptability

OrientDams: The Impact of Dams on Cultural Heritage in the Middle East and North    Africa. N. Marchetti and F. Zaina Vol 8 (12)

 

2019

Centre for digital Media News

 

2019  Campbell, C. “MDM Students Create Ancient VR City with UBC      Archeology” https://thecdm.ca/news/mdm-students-create-ancient-vr-city-ubc-    archeology (Feb. 13, 2019).

 

2018

NMC Newsletter

 

UofT Working to Establish Research Centre in Turkey

https://us17.campaign-archive.com/?u=12c51d3bbec33f03ad90df441&id=abff993cea

Archaeology at the ROM. October, https://us17.campaign-archive.com/?u=12c51d3bbec33f03ad90df441&id=abff993cea

NMC at the Science Rendezvous. May,  https://mailchi.mp/8edf1a7bc3f9/may-newsletter

Outreach. April, https://mailchi.mp/709d79300a10/newsletter-april-2018

UofT News Ambitious U of T-led project on ancient Middle East gets $2.5-million boost from federal government. Aug 2, https://www.utoronto.ca/news/ambitious-u-t-led-project-ancient-middle-east-gets-25-million-boost-federal-government

UofT News  U of T working to establish a research centre and archeological park in Turkey’s Amuq Valley. Oct 26, https://www.utoronto.ca/news/u-t-working-establish-research-centre-and-archeological-park-turkey-s-amuq-valley

 

Arts and Science News

 

University of Toronto working to establish a research centre and archaeological park in Turkey’s Amuq Valley. Oct 26, https://news.artsci.utoronto.ca/all-news/global-lens/university-toronto-working-establish-research-centre-archaeological-park-turkeys-amuq-valley/

 

 

Awards

 

2018

Kulik, R.

Bronze Age Urban Environments on Crete and Cyprus: Investigating Socio-Environmental Interactions using Geoarchaeology. CAORC 2018 Multi Country-Research Fellow. https://www.caorc.org/single-post/2018/05/14/CAORC-Announces-2018-Fellowship-Recipients

 

Media

Talks

 

2020

New York Times How Archaeologists are Using Deep learning to Dig Deeper. Zach Zorich https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/24/science/artificial-intelligence-archaeology-cnn.html?referringSource

 

2019

Hürriyet Daily News June 20, 2019 09:32:00 Hittites city to become open-air museum.

https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/hittites-city-to-become-open-air-museum-144333

Toronto Star UofT Researcher Honoured. Feb 14, 2019

CBC News: The National Jan 21, 2019 Canadian archeologists part of major discovery that could rewrite history. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGwG4cMiTjw&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR2U7jgNiF3eBRdQhmb9IzPljr79expusE80rnA2sQV6TgAVqiinMyfUiZ0 CBC Radio: World Report  Jan 3, 2019 Canadian archeologists part of major discovery that could rewrite history.

CBC Radio: The World at Six Jan 3, 2019 Canadian archeologists part of major discovery that could rewrite history.

 

2018

Beyas Gazete. http://beyazgazete.com/video/webtv/guncel-1/kanada-nin-ankara-buyukelcisi-chris-cooter-hatay-da-613098.html

Hatay Gov. Turkey. http://www.hatay.gov.tr/vali-ata-kanada-buyukelcisini-kabul-etti

Söz Gazetsi. https://sozgazetesi.com.tr/2018/10/24/kanadanin-kultur-elcileri-hatayda/ Arkeolojik Haber. https://www.arkeolojikhaber.com/haber-tayinat-hoyugu-arkeolojik-buluntulari-kanadada-sergilenmek-isteniyor-17735/

Antakya Gazetesi. http://www.antakyagazetesi.com/kanada-heyeti-hatayda/ Haberler. https://www.haberler.com/kanada-nin-ankara-buyukelcisi-chris-cooter-hatay-11366546-haberi/

Aksam. https://www.aksam.com.tr/guncel/kanadanin-ankara-buyukelcisi-chris-cooter-hatayda-incelemelerde-bulundu/haber-786476

Sanalbasin. http://www.sanalbasin.com/kanada039nin-ankara-buyukelcisi-chris-cooter-hatay039da-27528993

Iskanderun SES. http://www.iskenderunses.net/haber/buyukelcinin-kultur-ziyareti-6530.html

Alemihaber. http://www.alemihaber.com/aksam-guncel/9687344/kanadanin-ankara-buyukelcisi-chris-cooter-hatayda-incelemelerde-bulundu

 

2016

Harnessing the Past to Build the Future. TEDxUofT. (Timothy Harrison)

 

Newsletters and Blogs

 

2018

NMC Newsletter

 

2018 Archaeology at the ROM. October, https://outlook.office.com/owa/?realm=mail.utoronto.ca&path=/mail/inbox

 

NMC @UofT Open House. October, https://outlook.office.com/owa/?realm=mail.utoronto.ca&path=/mail/inbox

 

2018 NMC at the Science Rendezvous. May, https://mailchi.mp/8edf1a7bc3f9/may-newsletter

 

2018 Outreach. April, https://mailchi.mp/709d79300a10/newsletter-april-2018

 

UofT News Ambitious U of T-led project on ancient Middle East gets $2.5-million boost from federal government. Aug 2, https://www.utoronto.ca/news/ambitious-u-t-led-project-ancient-middle-east-gets-25-million-boost-federal-government

 

UofT News U of T working to establish a research centre and archeological park in Turkey’s Amuq Valley. Oct 26, https://www.utoronto.ca/news/u-t-working-establish-research-centre-and-archeological-park-turkey-s-amuq-valley

 

Arts and Science News

 

University of Toronto working to establish a research centre and archaeological park in Turkey’s Amuq Valley. Oct 26, https://news.artsci.utoronto.ca/all-news/global-lens/university-toronto-working-establish-research-centre-archaeological-park-turkeys-amuq-valley/

 

Arts and Science News (front page)

https://news.artsci.utoronto.ca/

 

 

Interviews

2020

S. Klassen for The Gezer Database Project Crane Insider J. Weinman

K. Badreshany for Fueling the State. Crane Insider J. Weinman

G. Philip for Fueling the State. Crane Insider J. Weinman

S. Manning for The 13C Stable isotopes Project. Crane Insider J. Weinman

D. Chandan for How the ‘Green Sahara’ matters to CRANE. Crane Insider J. Weinman

S. Branting for CRANE, UCF and DATCH. Crane Insider J. Weinman

 

2019

Hürriyet Daily News June 20, 2019 09:32:00 (Nicolo Marchetti) for Hittites city to become open-air museum. https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/hittites-city-to-become-open-air-museum-144333

CBC Television Toronto News –January 4th, 2019 https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1420290115842 (53 minute mark)

CBC Radio 1The World at Six – January 4th, 2019

CBC Radio 1 World Report - January 4th, 2019

 

2018

Re-release of Research2Reality: The Orange Chair Sessions. What’s new in Archaeology? (Timothy Harrison). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zitiEWD5KmE

 

2016

Research2Reality: The Orange Chair Sessions. What’s new in Archaeology? (Timothy Harrison).

 

Bond, S. After the Success Of ‘Pokémon GO’, How Will Augmented Reality Impact Archaeological Sites? Forbes.com (July 17, 2016). (Kevin Fisher)

 

2014

Montgomery, M. Recreating cities from antiquity for your mobile device/Interview with Kevin Fisher. Radio Canada International (rci.net) (Oct. 27, 2014). ) (Kevin Fisher)

Amos, H. Street View for the Bronze Age. UBC News (Oct. 24, 2014). (Kevin Fisher)

 

Websites

http://www.crane.utoronto.ca/ https://www.dur.ac.uk/archaeology/research/projects/all/?mode=project&id=648

https://dendro.cornell.edu/projects/crane.php

https://www.orientlab.net/orientdams

https://www.orientlab.net/islahiye

https://www.orientlab.net/eblachora

https://www.orientlab.net/tilmen

https://www.orientlab.net/samark-land

http://www.crane.utoronto.ca/

https://www.dur.ac.uk/archaeology/research/projects/all/?mode=project&id=648

https://dendro.cornell.edu/projects/crane.php

 

 

 

Website links to CRANE

http://www.asor-syrianheritage.org/links/

http://www.ancient.eu/user/murrayd7/

http://www.rfamfound1.org/proj01find.html

https://www.archaeological.org/lecturers?page=1

http://www.bu.edu/asor/am/2017/approved.html

https://www.acorjordan.org/2017/04/27/sea-peoples-neo-hittites-acor-public-lecture-tuesday-16-may-2017/

http://cnrs.ubc.ca/cners-welcomes-our-newest-faculty-member-dr-kevin-fisher/

http://cnrs.ubc.ca/people/kevin-fisher/

http://www.asor-syrianheritage.org/protecting-our-shared-heritage-in-syria-an-international-summit-to-promote-collaboration/

http://www.asor-syrianheritage.org/links/

http://www.ancient.eu/user/murrayd7/ http://www.rfamfound1.org/proj01find.html

https://www.archaeological.org/lecturers?page=1

http://www.bu.edu/asor/am/2017/approved.html

https://www.acorjordan.org/2017/04/27/sea-peoples-neo-hittites-acor-public-lecture-tuesday-16-may-2017/

http://cnrs.ubc.ca/cners-welcomes-our-newest-faculty-member-dr-kevin-fisher/ http://cnrs.ubc.ca/people/kevin-fisher/

http://www.asor-syrianheritage.org/protecting-our-shared-heritage-in-syria-an-international-summit-to-promote-collaboration/